“Charlie Albright is a poet of the piano, one of the most engaging, sensitive and thoughtful young artists I’ve heard in years.”- Robert Sherman, WQXR Radio, NY
Winner of both the coveted 2010 Gilmore Young Artist Award and the 2009 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, 21-year-old pianist Charlie Albright makes his recital debuts this season in New York and Washington, DC, in the Young Concert Artists Series. He also makes his debuts with the San Francisco Symphony and with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra under Gerard Schwarz, performing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3.
Mr. Albright also appears in the Irving S. Gilmore Rising Stars Series, makes his debut at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, and performs recitals at the Brownville Concert Series, Longwood Gardens, the Hudson Valley Music Club, the Buffalo Chamber Music Society, the University of Georgia in Athens, Port Washington Library, the Krannert Center and the Washington Center for the Performing Arts, in addition to educational residencies around the country.
Last season, he appeared in six concerts at the Gilmore Keyboard Festival, a concert in Paris at the Salle Cortot, and performed Mozart’s Concerto in D minor as soloist with the Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra and conductor David Lockington and the Olympia Symphony Orchestra.
At the Young Concert Artists International Auditions Mr. Albright won the Paul A. Fish First Prize as well as the Summis Auspiciis Prize, which sponsors his New York debut, the Ronald A. Asherson, the John Browning, and the Sander Buchman Prize, the Ruth Laredo Award, and four performance prizes. Other awards include a Vendome Virtuoso Prize and the Elizabeth Leonskaya Special Award at the 2009 Vendome Prize International Piano Competition in Lisbon, Portugal. Mr. Albright won the 2008 Harvard Bach Society Orchestra’s competition to perform the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto, Third Prize as the youngest competitor at the 2007 Hilton Head International Piano Competition, and First Prizes in the 2006 Eastman Piano Competition, the 2006 Stecher and Horowitz Foundation’s New York Piano Competition and the 2005 IIYM International Competition in Lawrence, Kansas.
At the age of 18, Mr. Albright performed with cellist Yo-Yo Ma at a ceremony at which Senator Ted Kennedy received an honorary degree from Harvard University, and again performed with Mr. Ma in a
program commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, featuring Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison.
Born in Centralia, Washington, Mr. Albright began piano lessons at the age of three. He has studied with Nancy Adsit and has participated in master classes with Richard Goode, Leif Ove Andsnes and Abbey Simon. Mr. Albright earned an Associate of Science degree at Centralia College while he was also in high school, and is currently in the Harvard College/New England Conservatory of Music joint program, pursuing a Bachelor’s degree as a Pre-med and Economics major at Harvard and a Master of Music degree in Piano Performance at the New England Conservatory of Music, with Wha-Kyung Byun.
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